Liquid discharge apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMitsugi Tanaka, Yoshikazu Shimizu
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Abstract
A liquid discharge apparatus is provided, which comprises a conveyor, a support member which supports a medium existing in a conveying passage, a head, a maintenance mechanism which has a wiper, and a wiper cleaner. The maintenance mechanism is opposed to a nozzle surface of the head and movable to a wiping position at which the wiper abuts against the nozzle surface and a cleaning position at which the wiper abuts against the wiper cleaner. The wiper cleaner is disposed at a position at which a part thereof is overlapped with the support member in a direction orthogonal to the nozzle surface under or below the support member.
Claims10
A liquid discharge apparatus comprising:
- a conveyor configured to convey a medium in a conveyance direction;
- a support member located downstream, in the conveyance direction, of the conveyor and configured to define a part of a conveying passage for allowing the medium conveyed by the conveyor to pass therethrough and which supports the medium existing in the conveying passage;
- a head including a nozzle surface on which a nozzle is opened;
- a maintenance mechanism including a wiper configured to wipe the nozzle surface;
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- a wiper cleaner configured to clean the wiper,
- wherein the maintenance mechanism is movable to a wiping position and a cleaning position, wherein the maintenance mechanism faces the nozzle surface of the head and the wiper makes contact with the nozzle surface at the wiping position, and the wiper makes contact with the wiper cleaner at the cleaning position, and
- wherein a part of the wiper cleaner is below the support member and overlapped with the support member in a direction orthogonal to the nozzle surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.